"Truly beautiful" - The Washington Post. "Darkly brilliant" - Classical Review. "Gritty, colorful, often profane and clearly true-to-life" - Opera News. A musical adventurer of great breadth and deep sensitivity, Matthew Peterson composes bravely. Here is seriousness and humor, power and tenderness, willfulness and intuition, premeditation and intuition - music that ranges in expression from the grand and sublime to fragile and delicate. His music has been commissioned and performed around the world by leading ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir, Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center, The St. Olaf Choir, Stockholms Saxophone Quartet and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
